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Joan Mitchell

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American painter (1925-1992)

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Works
23

Top works

  • The future of private industry
  • Mark's Gospel, the Whole Story
  • Easter People, Grade 1
  • Me, Believing
  • Easter People, Grade 3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
CA
Active from
1943-11-07

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
11
Total plays
39

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Quotes

  • I don't make drips [in her painting] purposely. This drip business is a pile of shit. If I see them, I take them out [of her painting] like cleaning the house.
  • [Mitchell wanted in her painting].. the feeling in a line of poetry which makes it different from, a line of prose.. .Sentimentality is self-pity, your own swamp. Weeping in your own beer is not a feeling. It lacks dignity and hasn't an outside reference.
  • I've have tried to take from everybody [every artist in American Abstract Expressionism ].. .I can't close my eyes or limit my experiences.. .Because I live now, I am more interested in art now. It's different as any art is different from period to period. But it's no better or worse.
  • It's [the color white] death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. You can add in Melville, Moby Dick a chapter on white. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst. [quote c. 1957]
  • I'm trying to remember what I felt about a certain cypress tree and I feel if I remember it, it will last me quite a long life.
  • Light is something very special. It has nothing to do with white. Either you see it or you don't. [George] de la Tour doesn't have light; Monet hasn't any light. Matisse, Goya, Chardin, Van Gogh, Sam Francis, Kline have it. But it has nothing to do with being the best painter at all.

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Official website

About Joan Mitchell | Joan Mitchell Foundation

Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) was an artist who created abstract oil paintings, drawings, and prints.

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date of birth
1925-02-12
date of death
1992-10-30
catalog code
298
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